Dram wrote:
so i suppose this is a survey of sorts, but if you're one of those folx
that gets annoyed by music classified and subclassified and genred to
death, you might not want to read on....
i've been reading up on Paul Miller's self-describing inventaterm,
illbient, and am wondering what you all on the list think of as a basic
definition for it. When elaborated on, some seem to relate it mostly to
dub, others say it's strictly a microgenre of trip-hop, still others say it
is a more meditative and intellectually urbanized sibling of ambient. and
of course there's more 'defs i'm leaving out....for me personally it's the
most interesting subgenre/genre/kind 'o music to come up in a while, it
seems that the people that make it each have some sort of individual theory
or manifesto behind the hows and whys of its creation, and i'm a sucker for
that kinda stuff. i suppose you could say the stuff i spin/make fits under
the term's widest umbrella, so there's another root of the curiosity....
welp. enough babblin'. responses will be appreciated.
Fred writes:
I would say that it is all of the above mentioned aspects of the musics and
that is the strong point of illbient. It can morph into whatever it wants
while keeping the boundry of ambience.
Fred